Friday-Sunday. This season things will be a little more convenient when it comes to the Colorado Symphony Orchestra’s Masterworks concerts. Fewer programs will be presented during the season, but each will be performed three times, on Friday and Saturday evenings, then again on Sunday afternoons. Better choose your options fast for the season-opener, though, as it starts Friday. Pianist Andre Watts, a local favorite, returns for a program that includes Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. (You call it the “Pathétique.”) Gilbert Varga conducts at Boettcher Concert Hall, Denver Performing Arts Complex at 14th and Curtis streets. $20-$83. 303-623-7876 or coloradosymphony.org.

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